Saudi beheading isn’t especially cruel; the head comes right off, and that’s that. But one wonders, given the vagaries of Saudi “justice” whether the condemned actually deserved it. That’s the real problem, so far as I can see.
> Saudi beheading isn’t especially cruel; the head comes right off, and that’s that. But one wonders, given the vagaries of Saudi “justice” whether the condemned actually deserved it. That’s the real problem, so far as I can see.
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I saw the video. It took three whacks to finish her. And as others have noted, the Saudis laws of evidence do not give me a warm fuzzy feeling that she was really "guilty beyond a reasonable doubt"
Usually the give a sedative before ... in this case they didn’t and it took three strokes to behead her. The justices in this case said it was unusually cruel the way she killed the child.
In this case, they had just recaptured the woman, she had fled for a time after her "conviction". Due to the circumstances, she was executed in the middle of a highway without the courtesy of a drug or pain killer and without the kneeling position. The first blow of the sword produced a quick loud scream and the second and third blows separated the head on the highway.